Korea came back from 0-2 down to beat Chinese Taipei 3-2 in their Group C Thomas Cup tie and boost their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages in Horsens Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nineteen-year-old Cho Hyeon-cho clinched the winning point for the Koreans after the upstaged world number 36 Lee Chia Hao 23-21, 21-12, 21-18 in the deicing singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chai Hao, ranked 173, went toe-toe with his rival in the 75-minute encounter to give the Koreans a much need victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Korea were beaten 1-4 by Denmark in their opening match and needed to beat the higher ranked Chinese Taipei today to give themselves a chance of making the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Koreans need to beat Sweden, who had already lost in the previous matches against Denmark and Chinese Taipei, to give themselves a chance to qualify. Chinese Taipei, meanwhile face a do-or-die match against Denmark in their final group tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Taiwanese veteran Chou Tien Chen, the world number six, gave his side a dream start, defeating Yoo Tae, ranked 60 rungs below him 21-18. 21-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
World number 14 Chiu Hsiang Chieh-Wang Chi Lin overcame second game loss to double the lead, defeating the unheralded pairing of Jin Yong-Seo Seung-jae 21-16, 15-21, 21-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Korean fightback started with the second singles. World number 85 Choi Jihoon was not expected to trouble 21 ranked Chi Ju Yen. But the latter, who was expected to deliver the winning point for Taiwan was beaten 17-21, 21-18, 16-21 after a 67-minute battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cho Song-hyun-Kim Won-ho also punched above their weight in the second doubles beating the world number 16 pairing of Lee Jhe-Huei-Yang Po-Hsuan 20-22, 21-18, 21-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world number 205 had also beaten their Taiwanese rivals in their only previous meeting at the Asian Team Championships earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teenager Hyeon-woo then stepped up to deliver the winning point for the Koreans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Favourites China dropped the first singles in their against Canada but romped home 4-1 winners. Their top player Shi Yuqi conceded a walkover to Panam champion Victor Lai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With India beating Australia 5-0, the Indians not top Group A ahead of China on countaback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both teams are already through to the quarter-finals and meet on Wednesday in a top of the table Group A clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Group B, Japan and Malaysia confirmed their quarter-final berth with wins over their European rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Malaysia, despite the shock defeat of their top singles Leong Jun Hao, went on to take an unassailable lead. Jun Hao was beaten 17-21, 15-21 by unheralded Joakim Oldorff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly, Japan also booked their quarter-final booth after taking the first three matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n THOMAS CUP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n India beat Australia 5-0 <\/strong>(Lakshya Sen bt Ephraim Stephen Sam 21-14,21-16; Ayush Shetty bt Shrey Dhand 21-8, 21-6; Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty bt Rizky Hidayat-Jack Yu 21-14, 21-16; H.S. Prannoy bt Rishi Honda Boobathy 21-11, 21-17; Hariharan Amsakarunan-M.R. Arjun bt Andika Ramadiansyah-Ephraim Stephen Sam 21-12, 21-10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n China bt Canada 4-1 <\/strong>((Shi Yuqi lost to Victor Lai walkover<\/em>; Liang Wei Keng-Wang Chang bt Kevin Lee-Ty Alexander Lindeman 24-22, 21-14; Li Shifeng bt Brian Yang 23-21, 21-10; He Jiting-Ren Xiangyu bt Kiren Milan Deraj-Daniel Leung 21-15, 21-9; Weng Hongyang bt Timothy Lock 21-15, 21-5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Japan beat England<\/strong> 5-0 <\/strong>((Yushi Tanaka bt Harry Huang 21-11, 21-16; Kakeru Kumagai-Hiroki Nishi bt Oliver Butler-Samuel Jones 10-21, 21-15, 21-12; Koki Watanabe bt Cholan Kayan 21-18, 21-10; Takumi Nomura-Yuichi Shimogami\u00a0bt Alex Green-Zach Russ 21-14, 21-15; Yudai Okimoto\u00a0bt Nadeem Dalvi 21-12, 21-4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Malaysia lead Finland 4-1 <\/strong>( Leong Jun Hao lost to Joakim Oldorff 17-21; 15-21; Justin Hoh bt Kalle Koljonen 21-14, 21-12; Lee Zii Jia bt Ananda Galvani Daniswara 21-19, 21-10; Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin bt Eliel Melleri-Niilo Nyqvist 21-12, 21-15; <\/em><\/strong>Soh Wooi Yik-Tee Wai Kun\u00a0\u00a0bt Ananda Galvani Daniswara-Alvar Melleri 21-7, 21-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group C<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Korea beat Chinese Taipei 3-2 <\/strong>(Yoo Tae-bin lost to Chou Tien Chen 18-21, 16-21; Jin Yong-Seo Seung-jae lost to Chiu Hsiang Chieh- Wang Chi Lin 16-21, 21-15, 11-21; Choi Jihoon bt Chu Yu Jen 21-17, 18-21, 21-16; Cho Song-hyun-Kim Won-ho bt Lee Jhe-Huei-Yang Po-Hsuan 20-22, 21-18, 21-19; Cho Hyeon-cho bt Lee Chia Hao 23-21, 21-12, 21-18_<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Korea came back from 0-2 down to beat Chinese Taipei 3-2 in their Group C Thomas Cup tie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-badminton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho.jpg",1094,615,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho.jpg",1094,615,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho.jpg",1094,615,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Cho-Hyeon-cho.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12310,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions\/12310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}